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The impossible dream : France and the Austrian Netherlands during the Régence (1715-1723) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article examines how after the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, in spite of the official French peace policy, the desire to incorporate sooner or later the Southern Netherlands into France remained quite strong in Paris. Although during the Regency of the
Smessaert, Floor, Vermeir, René
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From contract to treaty: the legal transformation of the Spanish succession (1659-1713) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The problem of the Spanish Succession kept the European diplomatic system in suspense from 1659 until 1713. Statesmen and diplomats tackled the question. Their practical vision of the law is a necessary complement to legal doctrine. Louis XIV and Emperor
Dhondt, Frederik
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Nationalism and War in the 21st‐Century Europe

open access: yes
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 63, Issue S1, Page 20-35, November 2025.
Siniša Malešević
wiley   +1 more source

Daughter, mother, widow: The making of the identities of Isabella d'Aragona

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 353-368, July 2024.
Abstract This article examines performances of identity (as daughter, mother and widow) by Isabella d'Aragona (1470–1524) in three of her letters. Isabella's construction of self, drew on her status as a dynast of the House of Aragon and aimed at securing her future and promote the interests of her children.
Darius von Güttner‐Sporzyński
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Europe in the Renaissance: continent, personification and myth in Ronsard's Discours de l'alteration et change des choses humaines

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 265-279, April 2024.
Abstract Renaissance readers were familiar with two traditions of visualizing the continent of Europe as a woman: the myth of Europa and the bull, and personifications of Europe as a queen. This article examines the impact of these traditions on the geographical, political and cultural discourses of Europe through the example of the French poet Ronsard'
Niall Oddy
wiley   +1 more source

Antineutralidad: an unknown and unpublished book of Diego de Saavedra Fajardo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The "Antineutralidad" is an anonymous, legal-political treatise in manuscript from 1640, dedicated to the count-duke of Olivares, stored in at least two locations: Brussels and Madrid.
Monostori, Tibor
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Ukrainians as “Aliens” (Inorodtsy): Governmental Regulation of Ukrainian Cultural Associations, 1905–17

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 2, Page 174-192, April 2024.
Abstract This article presents a history of the imperial government’s regulation of Ukrainian cultural associations, which appeared around the Romanov Empire in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution. It centers on the prehistory, drafting, and implementation of Circular No. 2 (1910), issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and signed by Petr Stolypin
Anton Kotenko
wiley   +1 more source

The holy crown of Hungary, visible and invisible [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The eight-hundred-years-old Crown of St Stephen (the visible crown) has engendered in Hungary a singular, genuine national tradition which has been more enduring than traditions accorded to regalia in other European countries.
Peter, L.
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Cultural Origin and Minority Shareholder Expropriation: Historical Evidence

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 181-228, March 2024.
ABSTRACT Can culture explain regional differences in minority shareholder expropriation? Examining regional variation in China, we document that the influence of historical Confucian values persists, despite decades of political movements clamping down on these values, and that these values reduce minority shareholder expropriation in local public ...
ZHIHUI GU, WEI SUN, FRANK S. ZHOU
wiley   +1 more source

Hledat a nalézat: Barokní Valdštejnové a jejich informační síť

open access: yesTheatrum Historiae, 2012
This article deals with the information network linking the members of the House of Waldstein, a top aristocratic dynasty in the society of the early Modern Age.
Jiří Hrbek
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